Bringing the Arm ecosystem together

Join us in Bangkok, Thailand from April 1-5, 2019

Attack of the Millennial I.T. Buyer Hardware at Software Speed in the Age of GitHub - Jacob Smith

Bio

Jacob Smith is the Chief Marketing Officer and a co-founder at Packet, a NYC-based startup that specializes in automating fundamental infrastructure. The company - which is backed by SoftBank, Dell Technologies, Samsung, Battery Ventures, and Third Point Capital - provides x86 and Arm bare metal compute to developers, SaaS companies and Fortune 50's through its Public Cloud, Enterprise (On-Premises) and Edge solutions. At Packet, Jacob directs revenue marketing, ecosystem outreach, and strategic alliances. In 2017, he worked with Arm to create the WorksOnArm ecosystem enablement program. A classical bassoonist by training, Jacob performed as a professional opera musician and ran a digital marketing firm before starting Packet with his twin brother Zac in 2014. He lives in Vermont with his wife Meghan, and sons Rory and Duncan.

Abstract

The emergence of a new Enterprise buyer aligns with a number of other shifts that are reshaping our $1 trillion technology ecosystem - the move to a disaggregated architecture, a rise in developer power, the growing influence of open source, and massive investments in silicon, data centers, and wireless. This talk will explore the opportunities and risks, and why ecosystem chops are more important than ever.

Digital transformation: Gains and Pains from the perspective of a large industry company - Dirk Slama

Bio

As Chief Alliance Officer of Bosch Software Innovations, Dirk is representing Bosch in the Steering Committee of the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) and is active in the Industry 4.0 community. Dirk has over 20 years experience in very large-scale distributed application projects and system integration, including SOA, BPM, M2M and IoT. His international work experience includes projects for Lufthansa Systems, Boeing, AT&T, NTT DoCoMo, HBOS and others. Dirk is a frequent speaker at conferences, as well as co-author of four successful books, including “Enterprise IoT” (www.enterprise-iot.org). As Conference Chair of the Bosch ConnectedWorld, Dirk helps shaping the IoT strategy of Bosch. He holds an MBA from IMD Lausanne as well as a Diploma Degree in Computer Science from TU Berlin.

Abstract

Everybody wants to be digital. But getting there can be an interesting journey, especially for an industrial company with few digital roots. How do cultural change, business model innovation, new (and old) technologies and open source play together in such an environment? And how are industry alliances and communities fitting in with this? Some tales from the coal face will be shared to illustrate this.

Bio

Zane Wei is a Senior Director of Strategic Business Development Department under Intelligent Computing BU,responsible for creating an open ecosystem and joint solutions for all Huawei servers.He had served several senior roles in Huawei since joining Huawei in 1999,with over 20 years of experience in the IT industry,he has filed some PCT patents and strived for development of heterogeneous computing architecture.He earned MBA degree in Hongkong University of Science and Technology(HKUST) and received bachelor degree from University of Science and Technology of China(UESTC) in 1998.

Abstract

The future is an intelligent digital world, where everything is to be sensible, connected to the cloud and AI enabled. That brings huge amount of information, and the relative calculation power requirements. However the scenarios for computing applications are varied. The diversity of applications and the resulting data are also diverse. Diverse applications produce diverse data, including text, images, and video, as well as structured, unstructured data. Because of the diversity of data, the appreciated computing architectures are also diverse. The ARM architecture has proved its value in the consumer-grade terminal industry. With the continuous innovation of ARM architecture, the performance of enterprise-grade ARM CPU will be greatly improved, ARM architecture is moving toward edge computing and data centers from the end, however an open ecosystem is critical for this leap. In this presentation Huawei will share their opinion and plans on how to build an open, competitive and win-win ARM data center ecosystem with industry partners.

Linux Code of Conduct - Mishi Choudhary

Bio

Mishi Choudhary is a technology lawyer with legal practice in New York and New Delhi. She is currently the Managing Partner at Mishi Choudhary & Associates, Legal Director of the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), where she is the primary legal representative of many of the world’s most significant free software developers, including Debian, the Apache Software Foundation, and OpenSSL. Mishi consults with and advises established businesses and startups using free software in their products and service offerings in the US, Europe, India, China, and Korea. As of 2015, Mishi is the only lawyer in the world to simultaneously appear on briefs in the US and Indian Supreme Courts in the same term. In 2010 she found SFLC.in, a legal services organization based in India inspired from the Electronic Frontier Foundation to defend digital freedoms of Indian citizens. She served as its President and executive Director from 2010-2017. SFLC.in under her leadership has become a significant voice defending Indian citizens’ civil liberties. She writes regularly in the top English dailies on issues of technology policy.In 2015, she was named one of the Asia Society’s 21 young leaders building Asia’s future for her work as a technology lawyer and online civil liberties activist.[16] In 2016, the Aspen Institute named her as a Fellow of the sixth class of the Kamalnayan Bajaj Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.In 2017, she won a Digital Women Award in the “Social Impact” category for her work with SFLC.in.

Abstract

A fundamental change is happening in the way software is made in the FOSS communities in the 21st century. These communities are now mature and the people who work there understand their work place differently. Over a decade and a half as more and more companies employ developers to contribute to FOSS and the communities become diverse, different expectations have begun to emerge from all stakeholders. These global communities have narrower social interactions, say, around a water cooler or in person, therefore, putting a premium on the way their internal intermediated communication is conducted. This talk will examine why Code of Conduct in this new world are on the rise and are a positive sign for mature FOSS projects that govern themselves and don't like suits. It will explore ways of managing legal risk by drafting codes of conduct addressing bias, creating a frictionless reporting mechanism for legal incident response, and making the project a fun, inclusive productive place.

Open Source QA - what will it take to get to the next level? - Tim Bird

Bio

Tim Bird is a Senior Software Engineer for Sony Corporation, where he helps Sony use Linux and other open source software in their products. Tim is the maintainer of the Fuego test framework, and is involved in various groups in the Linux Foundation, including the LF Technical Advisory Board. Tim created and continues to run the Embedded Linux Conference. Tim's overall goal is to improve Linux for use in consumer electronics products, by improving Linux system testing, directing technical initiatives of the Linux Foundation, and encouraging companies to participate in the open source community. Tim has been working with Linux for over 20 years.

Abstract

Over the last 20 years, Open Source software has made incredible inroads and become the de-facto standard for system software in many market categories. The same is not true of Open Source Quality Assurance. Despite the availability of many QA resources that are Open Source, the testing landscape is very fragmented, and there are lots of areas where in-house and ad-hoc testing hardware, code and methods are used. In this keynote, Tim will describe barriers to sharing existing tests and test infrastructure. Tim will give his insights about what will it take to get Quality Assurance to the same level of ubiquity, quality, community, ease of deployment, and low cost, as Open Source coding.

Opening Keynote - Li Gong

Bio

Li Gong is a globally experienced technologist and executive, with deep background in computer science, research and product development, and open source technologies. He has worked in senior leadership roles extensively in the US and in Asia, having served as President and COO at Mozilla Corporation, General Manager at Microsoft, as well as Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems and Distinguished Scientist at SRI International. He graduated from Tsinghua University, Beijing, and received a PhD from University of Cambridge. In 1994 he received the Leonard G. Abraham Prize given by the IEEE Communications Society for “the most significant contribution to technical literature in the field of interest of the IEEE.”

Abstract

Linaro's new CEO Li Gong will kick off the week at Connect with his keynote. Li Gong is a globally experienced technologist and executive, with deep background in computer science, research and product development, and open source technologies.

Telling Arm stories through public data - Felipe Hoffa

Bio

In 2011 Felipe Hoffa moved from Chile to San Francisco to join Google as a Software Engineer. Since 2013 he's been a Developer Advocate on big data - to inspire developers around the world to leverage the Google Cloud Platform tools to analyze and understand their data in ways they could never before. You can find him in several YouTube videos, blog posts, and conferences around the world.

Abstract

There's a lot of data relevant to the Arm world living in public datasets. In this session we are going to uncover some of the stories hiding within them. Who in the open source world is interested in Arm? What are their top projects? What do our users care for, and how can we help them move forward. If you ever need data to support your stories and use cases, come to this session to discover how to get plenty of it.

Tim Bird / Senior Software Engineer at Sony Corporation

Li Gong / CEO at Linaro

Felipe Hoffa / Developer Advocate at Google

Every six months, over 300 of the world's leading open source engineers working on Arm get together for a full week of engineering sessions and hacking at Linaro Connect. The next one will be held at the Centara Grand at CentralWorld in Thailand, Bangkok from Monday 1 April to Friday 5 April 2019.

Week Pass

$2,500 / $900

Day Pass

$750 / $300

If your company is a member of Linaro and you're looking for a discount code please email connect@linaro.org

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Linaro Connect Bangkok 2019 will be the 25th Connect since Linaro started in June 2010. Hundreds of the world’s best Linux on Arm developers come to Linaro Connect each time because they know it is the leading place to meet with the global community and to learn about what is going on in the industry. Sponsorship of the event puts your brand in front of all the event attendees – both the 400+ on-site and all those who participate remotely, as well as the thousands who view the website and social media before, during and after the event.